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![[Maryland Clean Marina flag]](../images/u/us_mdclm.jpg)
image located by Jan Mertens, 25 June 2008
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The Maryland Clean Marina flag can be seen on Programma’s website:
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/boating/cleanmarina/
“The Maryland Clean
Marina Initiative recognizes and promotes marinas, boatyards and yacht clubs of
any size that meet legal requirements and voluntarily adopt pollution prevention
practices. We aim to certify at least 25 percent of Maryland's estimated 600
marinas as Clean Marinas. The program was developed as an alternative to
additional regulations on the marina industry and all marinas and boatyards are
encouraged to participate!”
A handy FAQ page provides a number of answers
detailing, if that should still be necessary, what a Clean Marina is, or how a
marina could become Clean. We also learn that the programme was started in
mid-1997, laying the groundwork, and that the first certification was made
beginning of 1999:
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/boating/cleanmarina/faq.html
The flag is
a tricolour with diagonal stripes (ascending) in red (hoist), white (centre;
wider than the others) and yellow (fly), bearing the logo on the white field; an
additional slogan in red, near the lower edge, proclaims ‘PARTNERS IN
PROTECTION’. Hardly visible here, but present in the other photos linked to, is
a thin black border enclosing the entire flag.
The logo - in colour - may
be seen here:
http://www.carolinemd.org/governmt/recparks/images/clean_marina_logo.gif.
However on the flag the names ‘MARYLAND’ and ‘CLEAN MARINA’ surrounding the logo
proper are rendered in red, and the same goes for the disks separating the
names. The state coat of arms, in full colour, is placed on a compass rose the
vertical arms of which are divided yellow-black/black-yellow and the horizontal
ones, black-red/red-black. (To be honest this was the only example I could find
where the horizontal arms were not yellow & black!) The logo usage guidelines
specify that it “may be used on burgees [and] flags", see point 4 of first
listing:
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/boating/cleanmarina/download/logo_guidelines.pdf
Jan Mertens, 25 June 2008
